Briefly define the culture industry and how pseudo-individualization plays into it.

What will be an ideal response?


The culture industry encompasses all those sectors involved in the creation and distribution of mass-culture products: television, film, radio, music, magazines, newspapers, books, and the advertisements that sell them. Geared toward entertaining and pacifying the masses, the culture industry administers “mass deception” by churning out a never-ending supply of mass-produced, standardized commodities that “aborts and silences criticism.” Tied directly to the standardization of products is the “pseudo-individualization” that endows “cultural mass production with the halo of free choice or open market on the basis of standardization itself” (Adorno 1941:25). Here is the “parade of progress,” the world of the “new and improved” that masks an eternal sameness.

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